INCOMPRESSIBILITY OF ASYMMETRIC NUCLEAR MATTER Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Using an isospin- and momentum-dependent modified Gogny (MDI) interaction, the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock (SHF) approach, and a phenomenological modified Skyrme-like (MSL) model, we have studied the incompressibility K sat () of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter at its saturation density. Our results show that in the expansion of K sat () in powers of isospin asymmetry , i.e., K sat () = K0 + K sat ,22 + K sat ,44 + O(6), the magnitude of the 4th-order K sat ,4 parameter is generally small. The 2nd-order K sat ,2 parameter thus essentially characterizes the isospin dependence of the incompressibility of asymmetric nuclear matter at saturation density. Furthermore, the K sat ,2 can be expressed as [Formula: see text] in terms of the slope parameter L and the curvature parameter K sym of the symmetry energy and the third-order derivative parameter J0 of the energy of symmetric nuclear matter at saturation density, and we find the higher order J0 contribution to K sat ,2 generally cannot be neglected. Also, we have found a linear correlation between K sym and L as well as between J0/K0 and K0. Using these correlations together with the empirical constraints on K0 and L, the nuclear symmetry energy E sym (0) at normal nuclear density, and the nucleon effective mass, we have obtained an estimated value of K sat ,2 = -370 120 MeV for the 2nd-order parameter in the isospin asymmetry expansion of the incompressibility of asymmetric nuclear matter at its saturation density.

published proceedings

  • International Journal of Modern Physics E

author list (cited authors)

  • CHEN, L., CAI, B., SHEN, C., KO, C. M., XU, J., & LI, B.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • CHEN, LIE-WEN||CAI, BAO-JUN||SHEN, CHUN||KO, CHE MING||XU, JUN||LI, BAO-AN

publication date

  • September 2010